The kind of story I’d like to read (or write) when I was child

Started Holiday Romance 21 December 2013, Finished 23 December 2013 as part of challenge to read all of Dickens' works.
A cutesy story of romance as written by children. Pure fantasy and an amazing insight into a child's way of thinking.
The first part portrays the childhood romance as a whole, which ends because they "have to wait until they are 90 before adults no longer get in the way of their romance" and then each part thereafter tells of each of the individual sweethearts' imaginings of the romance. By imaginings I mean fantasy view of how the world works and how the romance triumphs against all odds ranging from a pirate world to a world where adults are referred to as children and treated as such.

Again wasn't left in awe of Dicken's mastery although I will say it is amazing to think that an adult wrote the story because you can truly imagine it to be the way kids would think so mastery there was but am thinking a break from Dickens may be required at this stage.

3.25⭐
PART I.
INTRODUCTORY ROMANCE PROM THE PEN OF WILLIAM TINKLING, ESQ. 3.5⭐

PART II.
ROMANCE. FROM THE PEN OF MISS ALICE RAINBIRD 3⭐

PART III.
ROMANCE. FROM THE PEN OF LIEUT.-COL. ROBIN REDFORTH 3.25⭐

PART IV.
ROMANCE FROM THE PEN OF MISS NETTIE ASHFORD 3.25⭐

Enjoyed a charming collection of four short stories told through the eyes of children. The innocent perspectives made it all the more amusing and heartwarming. Was a delightful read!

A cute little short story told from the perspectives of four children ages 6-9. Each child makes up a story about being a sea captain, or living in a land without grownups, having a magic godmother, or simply playing with their friends. It's whimsical and cute, but has no story structure at all. The narrative is sweet, and the writing is a delight, but the characters are flat with no development.

A quick little read, but nothing special.

What in the world is the point to these little tales?

This was not one of my favorite collections. The stories seemed disconnected and pointless. Continuing to read through Dickens entire collection.

First story - 3.5/5
Second story - 1/5
Third story -2/5
Fourth story - 4/5

Includes the delightful "The Magic Fishbone" so of course I want to read the others.

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Charming!

I only read the title story (novella?) Holiday Romance. Not sure what Dickens was going for, but I found it a bit tedious and didn't really enjoy the read. It was made of four parts, stories by each of the four children characters of their romance, but the whole thing could have done with a better context. I was expecting the thing to at least sum up at the end or give it some remedial morality.

Such an enjoyable quick read! I have always enjoyed Charles Dickens novels, but this is by far his most endearing short tale.